RAIN AND ORTHOPEDICS
Last night we got 1.25" of rain and no hail. Today I made the dreaded trip to the Orthopedics Associates in Fort Worth to have my right arm evaluated. The PA looking at my arm at my annual physical recommended that I have it surgically repaired. I did my own Internet search of the problem and came to the consensus that nothing should be done to it. This was confirmed by Dr. Watson's PA who has had 40 years in the business. He checked the mobility and strength of my arms and determined that my right arm was almost as good as my left. He said not to do anything to it. No surgery was required. My concern was that if the first tendon tearing off was related to old age, what is the status of the remaining tendon. He said it was fine and that I shouldn't worry about it. This is the second visit to Dr. Watson where I was told I had no problem.
It was an interesting trip. My son Mark was in Dayton visiting the AF and so his wife, Mary Kathryn offered to go with me to the doctor's office and we could have lunch together before she had to go pick up Mark who was flying back in. To celebrate their anniversary they had a meal at Aventinos, an Italian restaurant off Camp Bowie just behind La Madelaine. So we went there. When I worked in FW I used to eat there. The owner is an engineer that I knew at General Dynamics. I hadn't seen him in over 20 years but he was there and we visited. He put his iPhone on our table and gave me a rundown of all of his current design projects and I was amazed at the functionality of that gadget. The Italian food was great. I need spinach at every meal and they served spinach soup for me. We both enjoyed the luncheon specials, I had the salmon and pasta and MK had I think Tetrazini or something like that. It was good and we enjoyed it.
We needed to leave to get MK back to her car and just as we paid the bill the bottom dropped out of rain clouds. We had to run to the car in a sheet of rain water. Good thing we wear drip dry clothing. It was completely dry at MK's house. Driving back I stopped at DQ in Ranger for a waffle sundae. Didn't need it but it helped wake me up. Stopped for gasoline in Cisco which still has the lowest price out here. Helped Exxon out on their corporate meeting day.
Lou is doing fairly well. I walked with her Monday and Tuesday to the front gate and back. She has to rest in her chair coming back, but she made it. Tuesday I suggested she take her pain pill, not Advil but something like that before we walked. She had been taking a pill after she got back. It helped some. Didn't completely prevent back pain, but helped some. While I was in FW our neighbor, Joyce Marton, picked up the mail and visited with Lou for a little while. Lou is working on her memoir and is making progress.
I am learning more about QuickBooks for the church treasurer's job and was proud of myself when last Saturday I learned how to program the payroll for employees; pressed one button and entered the first check number, pressed the print paystubs button and the checks were created and the printer spit out the stubs and all I had to do was hand write the checks and correct the check numbers for the automatic transfer payments. My goal is to get rid of the treasurer's job.
Next week we go to the dentist on Tuesday, Lou has bone density test and a CT Scan on Thursday with a Regents meeting in Dallas on Friday. The next week we leave for Scottsdale on Tuesday for the annual WWA meeting. Our granddaughter, Val, will be our chauffer. So we remain busy.
Last night we got 1.25" of rain and no hail. Today I made the dreaded trip to the Orthopedics Associates in Fort Worth to have my right arm evaluated. The PA looking at my arm at my annual physical recommended that I have it surgically repaired. I did my own Internet search of the problem and came to the consensus that nothing should be done to it. This was confirmed by Dr. Watson's PA who has had 40 years in the business. He checked the mobility and strength of my arms and determined that my right arm was almost as good as my left. He said not to do anything to it. No surgery was required. My concern was that if the first tendon tearing off was related to old age, what is the status of the remaining tendon. He said it was fine and that I shouldn't worry about it. This is the second visit to Dr. Watson where I was told I had no problem.
It was an interesting trip. My son Mark was in Dayton visiting the AF and so his wife, Mary Kathryn offered to go with me to the doctor's office and we could have lunch together before she had to go pick up Mark who was flying back in. To celebrate their anniversary they had a meal at Aventinos, an Italian restaurant off Camp Bowie just behind La Madelaine. So we went there. When I worked in FW I used to eat there. The owner is an engineer that I knew at General Dynamics. I hadn't seen him in over 20 years but he was there and we visited. He put his iPhone on our table and gave me a rundown of all of his current design projects and I was amazed at the functionality of that gadget. The Italian food was great. I need spinach at every meal and they served spinach soup for me. We both enjoyed the luncheon specials, I had the salmon and pasta and MK had I think Tetrazini or something like that. It was good and we enjoyed it.
We needed to leave to get MK back to her car and just as we paid the bill the bottom dropped out of rain clouds. We had to run to the car in a sheet of rain water. Good thing we wear drip dry clothing. It was completely dry at MK's house. Driving back I stopped at DQ in Ranger for a waffle sundae. Didn't need it but it helped wake me up. Stopped for gasoline in Cisco which still has the lowest price out here. Helped Exxon out on their corporate meeting day.
Lou is doing fairly well. I walked with her Monday and Tuesday to the front gate and back. She has to rest in her chair coming back, but she made it. Tuesday I suggested she take her pain pill, not Advil but something like that before we walked. She had been taking a pill after she got back. It helped some. Didn't completely prevent back pain, but helped some. While I was in FW our neighbor, Joyce Marton, picked up the mail and visited with Lou for a little while. Lou is working on her memoir and is making progress.
I am learning more about QuickBooks for the church treasurer's job and was proud of myself when last Saturday I learned how to program the payroll for employees; pressed one button and entered the first check number, pressed the print paystubs button and the checks were created and the printer spit out the stubs and all I had to do was hand write the checks and correct the check numbers for the automatic transfer payments. My goal is to get rid of the treasurer's job.
Next week we go to the dentist on Tuesday, Lou has bone density test and a CT Scan on Thursday with a Regents meeting in Dallas on Friday. The next week we leave for Scottsdale on Tuesday for the annual WWA meeting. Our granddaughter, Val, will be our chauffer. So we remain busy.
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